Originally Posted by
Shaman
The other reason cold and flu season was so mild was because the little germ incubators/spreaders had to stay out of school at home.
I love this game make an overly broad general claim "otherwise it would be front page news". Someone refutes said claim with a referenced source (front page of local state news source). Don't read cited resource and claim it isn't sufficient to rebutt initial claim even though it was on the landing page and directly contradicted the notion put forth that ICU resources are abundant and not in short supply.
Tell him what he's won Chuck!!
There are a multitude of reasons for why we had mild flu season, and it likely had something to do with the CV-19 control measures (social distance/masks) were actually Influenza control measures originally (most national pandemic planning had an influenza baseline) which we assumed would useful for other airborne viral diseases. The 6' separation number is, IIRC a function of tuberculosis control. Additionally, travel from China globally was restricted, which would reduce the level of repeated infection of various areas outside of China.